March 14, 2019

What is High Culture For?

National Association of Scholars

Peter Wood interviews Nathaniel Peters of the Morningside Institute. 

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March 8, 2019

A Campus Free Speech Executive Order

Our recommendations for executive action on Free Speech. 

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March 1, 2019

Criticizing Confucius Institutes

National Association of Scholars

Three new reports from the federal government and from the UK reiterate NAS’s concerns: Confucius Institutes need to go. 

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March 1, 2019

Harry Clor, 1929-2018

Glenn Ricketts

Remembering a gentleman and a scholar.

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March 1, 2019

NAS Elects a New Chairman and Treasurer

National Association of Scholars

NAS announces the election of Keith Whitaker to Chairman and Thomas Klingenstien to Treasurer of the Board of Directors.

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February 28, 2019

Episode #17: Last Month Today (February News Edition)

Peter Wood

Peter W. Wood is joined by the NAS staff to discuss the news of February and what they're looking at in the month ahead.

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February 27, 2019

Clearing the Air: Racial Preferences in Classics Studies Revisited

David Randall

How will the classics die? We revisit a controversy in the field with new evidence. 

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February 21, 2019

Loose Definitions

National Association of Scholars

A bill in the Oregon legislature has drawn ire for comparing genocide to the daily plight of microaggressions and appropriation. 

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February 21, 2019

Episode #16: Rob Koons on Philosophy and the Good Life

National Association of Scholars

Listen in as Peter W. Wood and Rob Koons discuss some of the larger questions of life. 

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